Satoshi-tachi
stop for
food on their way to Dai Dai Island when they discover that going to
Dai
Dai Island by blimp is faster than walking. Satoshi can't afford
a blimp, but he wins a contest for a free blimp ride to Dai Dai Island,
so now he's all set! Meanwhile, Musashi and Kojirou are assigned
to the blimp section of the Rocket Dan.

Satoshi-tachi
go to the
blimp, but find it to be a run-down wreck. The maintenance
workers
tell Satoshi that the blimp is haunted and that he'd have to be crazy
to
ride that blimp. Just then, Musashi and Kojirou pop up, in
stewardess
outfits, pushing Satoshi-tachi onto the blimp. Outside the blimp,
Purin sees the release switch and mistakes it for a microphone.
It
accidently pushes it and the blimp takes off, with Purin hanging by a
wire!
Inside the blimp, Satoshi-tachi see just how run-down the blimp is.

It's time for
dinner,
and the food isn't that good. Then the blimp starts to
teeter.
Musashi and Kojirou go see who's piloting it, and it's no one!
(Nyasu
is busy cooking the food). The Rocket Dan go to the control room
and find out how to work the blimp by reading the instruction
manual.
They try to restore balance to the blimp and finally succeed after much
tilting and teetering. Then they start to fly into a storm and
can't
get away!

Meanwhile,
outside, Purin
climbs up into the blimp.

Inside,
Satoshi-tachi
get settled after the bumpy ride only to find that Togepi's
disappeared.
They search and search for it while Purin wanders around. It sees a
candle
on a table and mistakes it for another microphone and goes to climb up
the table. But the tablecloth comes down and completely covers
Purin.
Satoshi-tachi come across the Purin in a bedsheet and think it's a
ghost,
remembering the maintenance crew's warnings. Meanwhile Musashi
and
Kojirou are looking for Satoshi-tachi (so they can catch Pikachu) and
also
run into Purin, thinking it's a ghost.

The Rocket Dan
and Satoshi-tachi
finally find each other. They battle and soon discover that using
Pikachu's electricity will could make the blimp explode.
Matadogasu
is thrown out of the blimp by Ishitsubute, punching a hole into the
blimp
(don't worry, Matadogasu comes falling back). Kasumi spots Togepi
walking on a high beam, so Kasumi follows (with Fushigidane's vines
being
used to help her keep her balance). Nyasu decides to climb after
Pikachu (who's also on a high beam with Satoshi and Takeshi) when the
blimp
flies out of the storm. The sunlight blinds Nyasu, making him
lose
his concentration and he almost falls! Then the blimp shakes,
causing
Musashi, Kojirou, and Nyasu to fall out of the blimp. But thanks
to Nyasu grabbing some access cloth, they form a parachute and float
down
safely. Purin follows.

Kasumi finally
retrieves
Togepi when everyone notices the gas leaking out of the blimp.
Satoshi
and Takeshi release their pokemon to let their weight even out the
blimp
(remind you of the St. Anne episodes?). They successfully
crash-land
the blimp onto Dai Dai Island! Lucky!

*This isn't
really a cut
or edit, but notice how the sign at the very beginning of the episode
(with
Kabigon on it) has convenience mispelled? It's spelled
"Convinience."

The
game Satoshi plays that wins him the tickets has Fukubiki, the Japanese word for
"lottery," written out in our alphabet. It's whited-out in the
American version. So not only
is Japanese letters not allowed, but apparently Japanese words aren't
allowed
either. o_O

*When Kasumi's
looking for
her Togepi, she picks up a red round thing instead. That red
thing
is a Daruma doll. What you do with these dolls is that you set a
goal, and then draw an eye on it. Then when you accomplish your
goal,
you draw the other eye. A person with a lot of one-eyed dolls
isn't
a very productive person. The story behind the doll is that a
Buddhist
monk, Daruma, meditated under a tree. He meditated so long that
he
lost the use of his limbs, and then became a ball! Because of his
determination, he became enlightened. The doll starts out with no
eyes (and cannot see, or is unenlightened) and when you finish your
goal,
you are able to see (and are enlightened).

*The music played
when Nyasu
climbs the ladder is from the song "Roketto Dan yo Eien ni" (the part
before
the motto)